<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear colleagues,<br><br>Apologies for any cross posting.<br><br>You are invited to attend the following session at "Climate Change: Global<br>Risks, Challenges and Decisions" (10-12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark):<br>Informing the Future by Understanding the Past. Session convenors: Bette<br>Otto-Bliesner and Chris Turney.<br><br>Please be aware, the abstract deadline is Monday 1 September 2008<br>(<a href="http://www.climatecongress.ku.dk/">www.climatecongress.ku.dk</a>).<br><br>Session summary: The past can play a tremendously important role in<br>helping us understand future climate change. This session will invite<br>reports on the latest reconstructions, from data and from modeling, of<br>periods of past climate change that can provide important lessons about<br>the nature, links and causes of climate change at the continental and<br>global scales (e.g. Eemian, Holocene Climatic Optimum) and/or human<br>responses to<br>variability (past civilizations or cultures). Contributions are invited<br>from any part of the globe and dealing with any aspect of climate change<br>and/or archaeological response.<br><br>Congress Purpose: The Danish Government as host of the UN Conference on<br>Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 has<br>asked International Alliance of Research Universities to organise this<br>conference as part of the run-up to the COP 15. All findings will be<br>compiled in a book on climate change, and an executive summary with the<br>main findings from the congress will, after agreement with the Danish<br>Government, be handed over to policy makers at the COP15 in Copenhagen at<br>the end of 2009.<div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you'd like any further information.</div><div><br></div><div>With best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">****************************************************</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>Professor Chris Turney</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Author of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?PID=280639">Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past</a></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; 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